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July 20.— " Second raid came in on a west-northwest wind, and lit at 

 night. 

 July 22.—" Wind north-northeast, heavy flight, and coming down all day. 

 July 23.— -'Wind northeast, haling east. Heavy flight; came down heavily, 

 and covered everything nearly. 



July 24.— "Wind varying from north-northeast to east. Coining and going 

 all day ; some commenced laying eggs, which was kept up till this raid al 1 

 left us. 



July 27.— "Wind from north and east. Heavy flight, and most of them 

 left here. 



July 2t).— 'An east wind took all this raid away, the upper current being 

 to the southwest. No more flights until 



Aug. G.— "Light wind from northwest. Another heavy raid came in,. 

 These remained till 



Aug. 10 —"when wind again came from the northwest, and it rained. As 

 soon as the shower was over and before the sun shone out, the hoppers 

 started in heavy flight. 



Aug. 12.— "The red mites were flrst noticed doing much damage to the 

 eggs. 



Aug. 13.— "Another showery day, and immediately after the rain they 

 started south. 



Aug. 14.— "Wind from north and north-northeast. They started early and 

 before the sun came out, although it was quite cool; about all of this raid 

 left. 



Aug. 16.— "Very cloudy, with variable winds. Suddenly, while it was quite 

 dark with clouds, the hoppers jumped up and flew off southwest; the very 

 flrst puff of wind from the northeast, and they all left here. 



Aug. 18.— "Wind again from the north. A very heavy flight passed over, 

 high up in the air. None alighted. Red mites disappearing. 



Aug. 23.— "Wind hauling to westward, and some few stragglers flew as 

 near south as they could. 



Aug. 24.— "Wind northwest. Grasshoppers very high and heavy flight to 

 the southwest. 



Aug. 25.— "Wind northwest. Heavy flight to the southwest, very high. 

 Aug. 31.— "Showery for several days before; wind suddenly north-north- 

 west, and by 10 a. m. many grasshoppers were flying. By noon, iu the up- 

 per air and almost indistinguishable, was a heavy body going southwest. 

 None lit here 



"On the dates intermediate between those given the wind was very light, 

 and there were no flights, except perhaps short ones, from one part of afield 

 to another. 



"When the directions of flight are not expressly stated, they correspond 

 almost exactly with the direction of the wind." 



